The citizens’ dream of “anytime, anywhere” government services could be a reality by 2013 with the Centre deciding to pump in Rs 20,175 crore for as many as 27 projects for this purpose under its National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) in the next four years.
The plan, jointly formulated by the department of administrative reforms and public grievances and department of information technology, will cover almost all kind of services which can be provided to citizens online. While 16 projects worth Rs 10,622 crore have already got the Cabinet’s approval, the remaining ones will be unveiled in due course taking state governments on board.
“Though some of the services are currently available to citizens in big cities, the idea is to decentralise it down to the village-level across the country by 2012-13,” said a senior official.
Once fully implemented, the citizens will have all the services – land records, ration cards, immigration details, vehicle registration, public grievances, government certificates, traffic challans and registration of criminal cases – available on touch-screen computers or online on their own computers. [Via]
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